It’s really sad to see this on the BBC news:

The Archbishop of Canterbury says the adoption of certain aspects of Sharia law in the UK “seems unavoidable”.

Dr Rowan Williams told Radio 4′s World at One that the UK has to “face up to the fact” that some of its citizens do not relate to the British legal system.

If they don’t relate, that’s not the British people’s problem. Nor is it the British justice system’s problem. You don’t have to ‘relate’ to the legal system to live in the country anyway, you just have to obey the laws laid down for ALL of us.

And what’s more mystifying to me is – if muslims can have sharia law for themselves for certain things – why have Christian courts been abolished in favour of a legal system that we must ALL obey?

It just seems to me that saying that muslims seem apart from society therefore they need their own legal system, is just reinforcing that fallacy. Muslims who came here after WW2 grouped together because they were strangers in a foreign land and that grouping continued until this day. Sharia law isn’t going to solve anything.

The Archbishop brings loyalty into the fray:

He says Muslims should not have to choose between “the stark alternatives of cultural loyalty or state loyalty”.

Loyalty? What does following the law have to do with loyalty? If you’re getting a divorce it has nothing to do with your culture (muslims only say so because they want to believe that). A divorce is between husband and wife, nothing to do with culture or state (except in an judgement capacity).

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